He's never seen the Buckeyes practice facility, never seen the campus. None of it.

That's a little weird, even in recruiting where the strange seems to happen often. So why did Jackson commit to Ohio State before ever visiting?

"It's more about feeling than anything," he told cleveland.com on Tuesday night.

But he's not fully diving in blindly just yet. Jackson said he fully expects to sign with Ohio State, but not until after he visits. Jackson told cleveland.com that visit would happen on April 15, but it will now happen on April 22 according to Adam Jardy of the Columbus Dispatch.

So on Wednesday, when the remaining uncommitted 2016 prospects across the country can start signing National Letters of Intent in the regular signing period, Ohio State won't be getting a fax from Jackson. It's nothing really to be worried about, but it is interesting. That sort of falls in line with how Jackson got to this point in the first place.

When you read the news of his commitment on Tuesday, maybe you were turned off by a kid who played a year of prep school and a year of junior college basketball. It wasn't about grades.

Jackson was the age of a high school junior when he graduated from Olympic High School in Charlotte, N.C., in 2014. So he opted for a year of prep school at Montverde Academy in Florida, the same program that's produced players like D'Angelo Russell and Ben Simmons, in an effort to mature physically before going to college.

He had a commitment to George Mason lined up for 2015, but that fell apart when former Patriots coach Paul Hewitt was fired that March. Rather than scramble late to find another college program, Jackson went the junior college route instead.

"He felt like he wanted to do it all over again to get an opportunity to play at a little better level and the opportunity to hone his skills a little more," his father, Cleveland Jackson told cleveland.com.

The gamble paid off. Jackson averaged 16.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game in his freshman season at Eastern Florida State College. He was named a second-team junior college All-American on Tuesday.

He's eligible to play immediately, and has three years of eligibility remaining.

"C.J. has done things for us that we've had no one do before," Eastern Florida coach Jeremy Shulman told cleveland.com. "I forget often that he's just a freshman. No freshman that we've ever had has done anything close to what he's done."

Watch this full Eastern Florida State College vs. Broward College game in which Jackson scored 24 points:

Eastern Florida has sent 21 players to the Division I ranks in the last five years, and Shulman said Jackson is one of the best. Of course he has to say that. But the interest he was drawing supports it.

After scoring 26 points against a Billy Gillispie-coached Ranger College team in the second round of the national junior college tournament, things heated up. Jackson visited UConn in March, and actually took a visit to Missouri last weekend. He was trying to schedule visits with Ohio State and Virginia Tech before informing the Buckeyes of his commitment on Monday night.

"It was just the coaching staff," Jackson said. "I felt like I'll get better there more than anywhere else."

Shulman said Matta was at Eastern Florida last Thursday, the first day after the recruiting dead period ended, and offered Jackson a scholarship. So the interest was mutual.

Ohio State needed to add another ball-handling guard to its roster, and Jackson is a fit. JaQuan Lyle won't be the only point guard on the roster anymore.

"I think that he's a very effective point guard," Cleveland Jackson said. "I think he's a point guard through and through, the definition of what people would call a true point guard. But because of his ability to make shots, he can be moved to the two position. In terms of labels, I don't know how to define him. He's just a really good guard."

C.J. Jackson is the son of a coach. His father was a junior college All-American, a two-year starter at Georgia and played professionally in Venezuela. Cleveland Jackson was an assistant coach at Mercer University and is now the head coach at Olympic High School.

Both Cleveland Jackson and Shulman praised C.J. for his mental approach to the game.

"He's a really good passer," Shulman said. "Right away he will be another guy who's an extension of the coach on the floor."

And he can shoot.

"A player who can bring unbelievable shooting from unbelievable range," Shulman said. "He made over 100 3-pointers at a 45 percent clip. My nine years at the college level, I've never had anyone shoot the ball with that consistency on that many attempts."

Jackson has the skills Ohio State is looking for, but there's nothing automatic about jumping from junior college to Division I. There's going to be an adjustment.

Matta has tried the junior college route before and it hasn't exactly worked out.

But this wouldn't be happening if both sides didn't think Jackson could do it.

"Nothing is gonna shock him when he gets to the Division I level," Shulman said.